Top Thriller Movies


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461. The Quiet American

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton
Plot: An Englishman and an American vie for the heart of the same woman amidst the chaos of 1950s Vietnam.

462. Nick of Time

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Badham
Actors: Johnny Depp, Courtney Chase, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Walken, Roma Maffia, Peter Strauss
Plot: A man is given exactly 1:15 minutes to kill a prominent person or his daughter will be killed.

463. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello
Plot: The citizens of London are in the grips of fear, because a killer known as "The Avenger" is murdering young blonde haired women on foggy evenings. This was Hitchcock's first thriller.

464. Dark Passage

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Delmer Daves
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea, Clifton Young
Plot: A wrongfully convicted man escapes San Quentin and with the help of a beautiful woman tries to clear his name as the bodies continue to pile up.

465. Cutter's Way

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ivan Passer
Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg

466. Niagara

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea, Richard Allan

467. The Expendables 3

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Patrick Hughes
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson
Plot: For Barney Ross, leader of The Expendables, things just got personal. Years ago, he helped found the group with the help of Conrad Stonebanks - but somewhere along the way Stonebanks changed and turned to arms dealing - and Ross was forced to kill him... so he thought. Now Stonebanks is back, and is out for blood. With The Expendables as targets, Ross brings in some new blood - mixing old-school muscles with modern tactics and technology. He's hoping this one-two punch will be enough to bring Stonebanks down... for good.

468. 3 Days to Kill

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: McG
Actors: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, Eriq Ebouaney
Plot: A secret service agent is dying and wants nothing more than to reconnect
with his estranged daughter. He is promised a new drug - one that could
save his life - but in return, he will have to carry out one final
mission.

469. The Shortcut

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nicholaus Goossen
Actors: Andrew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco, Katrina Bowden, Raymond J. Barry, Wendy Anderson
Plot: Two brothers come upon a rarely used shortcut in their new town.

470. Time Lapse

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bradley King
Actors: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, Sharon Maughan, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak
Plot: After a tenet goes missing, a group of friends discover he has been working on a machine that points into their window and takes pictures of the near future. Using the device to their advantage, they begins to use it to win bets - but things soon spiral out of control as the future begins to reveal a much darker turn of events.

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